Climate Summit in Bangkok concludes without agreement against CO2

The negotiations in the UN framework on climate change have ended without progress on key issues, including setting a new cut in gas emissions by industrialized countries.

After the meeting in Bangkok two weeks, the executive secretary of the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, confirmed that during the negotiations the delegations avoided taking tough political decisions, although advanced in technical aspects of the text to be presented at the December summit in Copenhagen.

"All the ingredients for success are on the table," said De Boer at a press conference.

Before the summit in the Danish capital, the delegations will meet again next November in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

De Boer, annoyed by the lack of progress in negotiations on Thursday urged rich nations to improve their offerings, particularly in reducing greenhouse gases and funding to developing countries.
Reviews of emerging countries

Developing nations led by China, and the NGOs go even further and accused the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada of trying to "kill" the Kyoto Protocol and negotiate another agreement, perhaps less ambitious.

"We want to keep the Kyoto Protocol. We believe the only way to achieve this is to find a new framework within a simple legal structure," he told reporters Anders Turesson, head of the Swedish delegation, which holds the rotating presidency the EU.

Developed nations, also known as Annex 1, were committed to the Kyoto Protocol to reduce by 5.2% gas emissions by 2012, with reference to 1990 levels.

Over 2,000 delegates from 178 countries in Bangkok discuss new targets for the period 2012-2020, and the inclusion of developing countries and the United States, which has not signed the Kyoto agreement.

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recommended that rich countries lowered between 25 and 40% emissions by 2020 compared to 1990.

So far, the EU has proposed a cut of up to 30%, Japan 25 per cent and the United States 7 percent, although not officially.